Presentations

Thematic Event: IMC Colloquium Series
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Analyzing illegal drug supply chains as two-mode social networks Friday, January 21, 2011 Martin Bouchard School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University A promising avenue for law enforcement agencies to have an impact on drug trafficking networks is to focus on the most important actor, the one... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 0:00)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Modeling human expression and creativity using cognitive based artificial intelligence Friday, February 11, 2011 Dr. Steve DiPaola School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University By using parameterization techniques which model the knowledge space of a living or cognitive systems (eg. the behavior space of whales, the... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:18:47)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Modelling the Expansion of the Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy for HIV, within Risk Behaviour Environment Friday, March 4, 2011 Bojan Ramadanovic Complex Systems Modelling Group, The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University One of the key contributors to the spread of the HIV epidemic is the prevalence of risk behaviour, such as unprotected sexual contact and the... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 45:38)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Are Stock Markets Beauty Contests? Friday, March 18, 2011 Kenneth Kasa Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University In 1936, Keynes drew an analogy between investing in the stock market and predicting the winner of a beauty contest, where the winner is the... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:01:04)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Sources of bias for estimators of gene-by-environment interaction from case-parent trio data Friday, April 1, 2011 Brad McNeney Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Simon Fraser University The case-parent trio design was popularized by the well-known transmission-disequilibrium test, which conditions on parental genotype information... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 49:45)

Thematic Event: 2011 Global Warming Seminar Series
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12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	The Instrumental Temperature Record and what it tells us about Climate Change Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Francis Zwiers Director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, B.C. The modern instrumental surface temperature record extends back in time over about one and a half centuries. Since 1850, the number of points at... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:20:04)
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	Climate Change and the Melting Polar Ice Caps Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Kenneth M. Golden Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Utah The dramatic decline of the summer Arctic sea ice pack is probably the most visible, large scale change on Earth's surface in recent years. Most... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 57:15)
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	The Role of the Oceans in Climate Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Kevin Trenberth Senior Scientist and Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado A description of the role of the various components of the climate system (the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice) in climate variability and change... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:18:54)
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	The Role of Clouds and Water Vapor in Climate Change Tuesday, March 15, 2011 David Randall Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado I will begin with a brief primer on the physics of climate change, and how it is represented in climate models, and how the models are tested with... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:07:21)
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	The Cloud Experiment at CERN Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Jasper Kirkby Head of the CLOUD Experiment, CERN, Geneva Understanding the causes of climate change is one of the most important challenges facing science today. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:05:18)
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm	Responding to the Climate Change Challenge Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Thomas Pedersen Professor and Director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria We now know the root causes of the global warming and ocean-acidification that are underway on our planet. These are no longer an issue of science... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:20:42)

Thematic Event: 6th Annual IRMACS Day
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm	6th Annual IRMACS Day - Welcome and Introductions Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Dr. Veselin Jungic, IRMACS Centre Deputy Director, Dr. Mario Pinto, SFU Vice President Research, Dr. Arne Mooers, Biology & IRMACS Management Committee and Ms. Pam Borghardt, IRMACS Centre Managing Director. An overview of research conducted over the last six years at the IRMACS Centre. More Details Click to watch (Duration: 20:28)
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Intelligent Decision Support for Marine Safety and Security Operations Thursday, April 7, 2011 Mr. Ali Khalili Araghi, winner of the Peter Borwein Annual Graduate Scholarship in Mathematics & Computational Modelling of Complex Systems With the increasing traffic in ports and its vulnerability to the illegal activities and threats, large volume surveillance has become a challenge... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 0:00)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Reflections on the Verification and Validation of Computer Simulations Thursday, April 7, 2011 Dr. Eric Winsberg, Philosopher of Science, University of South Florida It is common practice in the simulation community to distinguish between verification and validation. Verification is said to be the process of... More Details Click to watch (Duration: 1:04:12)
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